"Democracy is about majority rule, not majoritarian tyranny."
"Gandhi won't leave India", Gopalkrishna Gandhi, New York Times, 2017-08-14
We do have to be careful even about the phrase “majority rule”. Does the majority rule about climate change? If the majority is purple people do they get to rule that all orange people should leave the country?
“Majority rules” should be limited to the majority elects those who govern, not to each and every rule that a government makes. And in our last election, a minority of those who voted determine who would become president.
Consider also that many corporations want to eliminate many rules that “the majority” made: rules about safety, rules about pollution, rules about…
